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ANTICAR

7 letters

Definition of ANTICAR

adjective

Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From anti- + car.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompoundanti-

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ANTICAR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 5 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
98
First board
155
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 98, 26 August 2026.

Built from these letters

ANTICAR
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ANTICAR starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACINRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start ANTICA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ANTICALANTICALLYANTICAKINGANTICANCERANTICARIESANTICATHODEANTICATALYSTANTICATHODESANTICATALYSTSANTICAPITALISMANTICAPITALISTANTICARCINOGEN

Could you have found ANTICAR?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 98 - and most players walked straight past it.

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